Human Rights and Environment: Whither Nigeria?

Abstract

This paper studied human right and environment.  Environmental right is wide spreading the world over.  The environment is a key to human life.  A harmonious environment makes for a healthy living.  There is a growing trend that environmental right is closely tied to the right to life.  This jurisprudential trend suggests that a violation of environmental right is a violation of right to life, since environment has key role to play in human life.  The paper reveals that Indian Supreme Court has widely expanded the right to life to include that of environmental right.  It also reveals that Nigeria is yet to positively take environmental right seriously.  It concluded that the Nigerian judiciary should blaze the Indian trail and the legislature should also pass a law on environmental right.

Keywords: Human, Right, Environment.